Training · #showing

Training guides tagged “showing” from the Apex Equine resource center.

• Your first horse show: surviving and maybe enjoying it — Nobody warns you that the hardest part of your first show is the four hours before your class. Here's how to make the day feel less like an ambush.
• The show-day packing list you'll actually use — Every rider has stood in a show parking lot realizing they left the bridle hanging in the tack room. Here's how to pack so that never happens to you.
• Turnout that wins before you enter the ring — Judges form an impression of your horse in the first three seconds. Immaculate turnout buys you the benefit of the doubt on everything that follows.
• Picking the right shows so you build, not break, confidence — Enter too high and you teach yourself and your horse to fail. The right show calendar is a ladder, and you climb it one rung at a time.